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Aglet56 posted:the whole thing with the company's cruise lines being mired in scandal definitely suffered from the TV writing process, because in season 1 the exact details of whatever horrible crimes their cruise lines did weren't relevant, since the whole thing was kind of a farcical scenario for tom to get unwittingly trapped in. then in later seasons it became this huge existential threat to the company with congressional hearings and everything, but they never bothered to flesh out exactly what the crimes were so it's too abstract to have any stakes ??? p sure it was revealed to be rampant sexual abuse (including by waystar exec/higher-up “mo” lester) and covering up deaths of foreign born employees (“no real person involved”), and then destroying evidence of these crimes Wraith of J.O.I. has issued a correction as of 20:24 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Mantis42 posted:No, bc he looked like the one from the TV show PerniciousKnid posted:Doubt it because he basically looked like John Astin. I completely forgot that show existed
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i say swears online posted:my friends all loved the show but universally hated guzman because he didn't look like raul julia. they had never heard of the comic strip you need new friends
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:??? yeah it was pretty clear
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Raul Julia was a way better Gomez but it's cause the writers gave him fun poo poo to do in the movies. Gomez doesn't get to do anything in Wednesday but a few lines with Morticia then be an offscreen plot point
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:??? it's been a while so i'll grant that i may not have been paying attention waystar is supposed to be a combination of disney and newscorp, so imo it's not very credible that they'd get the point of congress holding hearings, threatening legislation, etc. over these crimes, all of which have occurred at the actual factual disney and newscorp without consequence. but maybe succession takes place in a more optimistic universe
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:we are so back (in 2 months) 2 months? I need my Romulus fix now
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i say swears online posted:anyone keep up with three body problem? tencent youtube is up to episode 8 now, which means about 5 hours of content. is it exciting yet? not yet, they just got done with the first round of 3body.com
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Simpsons and MST3K were key to me developing my sense of humor. also both have the thing going on where when you're a kid like 70% of the jokes go over your head so when you revisit it as an adult it's a whole new thing. yeah there's a bunch of cool gay jokes I never got!
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hell yeah https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1618693187522146307?s=20
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Aglet56 posted:
it's a ton of fantastic actors at the top of their game with a script full of pithy dialog, there's a lot to like about it even if the plotting season-to-season gets repetitive
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Trabisnikof posted:I pity the goons who reflexively hate this show because “it’s just another show about rich people, no thank you” because it’s fun to watch To be fair, this is exactly what it seemed to me after watching three episodes.
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The Simpsons is so old it is eligible to run for president
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hell i'd vote for it
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i say swears online posted:anyone keep up with three body problem? tencent youtube is up to episode 8 now, which means about 5 hours of content. is it exciting yet? I’m going to keep watching it out of curiosity but so far the only thing that has happened is the 2 main characters played a 2008 weird VR game. overall the story is interesting to me and curious how it goes but the pacing and the cinematography is starting to be a bit off putting. maybe it’s the video camera/frame rate look.
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Stop, already dead, etc
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i say swears online posted:same but Doug HONK HONK
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Clip-On Fedora posted:To be fair, this is exactly what it seemed to me after watching three episodes. I think episode 4 was where it clicked for me that Succession wasn't a drama, but actually just a version of Arrested Development where they're billionaires instead of millionaires
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I hope it keeps going for long enough that Matt Groening dies and becomes a Tom Clancy style brand name
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Justin Roiland's whole mainstream career was less than a third of the run of the Simpsons so far
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Atrocious Joe posted:Justin Roiland's whole mainstream career was less than a third of the run of the Simpsons so far His whole mainstream career so far! He'll probably have a long run in Christian animation or something.
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He's going to make some cringey cartoon for like the Daily Wire and it's going to complain about the hypocrisy of the liberal elite and cancel culture and he's going to make feminists talk in the Lemongrab voice from Adventure Time
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the crazy thing about Simpsons still going is that it's not any cheaper to make, the main VAs are making beaucoup dollores per episode even if their animation costs plateaued after the shift to HD (and I’m sure they haven't). their viewership is less than 1/6 what it was 20 years ago so they can't be killing it in advertising I don't understand it. Fox can keep milking the IP in syndication/streaming/merchandise/licensing for years with the 750 episodes they have, why produce more
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indigi posted:the crazy thing about Simpsons still going is that it's not any cheaper to make, the main VAs are making beaucoup dollores per episode even if their animation costs plateaued after the shift to HD (and I’m sure they haven't). their viewership is less than 1/6 what it was 20 years ago so they can't be killing it in advertising the show feels load-bearing at this point, like theres some licensing deal or major network contact made almost four decades ago that involves new episodes and renegotiating it would be more costly than producing more seasons
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Aglet56 posted:i'm hardly the first to notice it, but succession's overarching plot is basically the same thing over and over: one or more of the kids scheme to take over the company, logan seems like he's hosed, but at the last second he pulls a legalistic trick to kick their rear end and defuse their takeover. logan gets big mad at whoever tried to dethrone him but ultimately nobody faces any consequences https://youtu.be/dw7alNjkYro The main appeal of Succession is the writing, directing, and acting, which is all excellent.
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White Noise is really good until the midway point and then it loses all its steam
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its cool that succession is legitimately episodic and any escalating tension always serves as a setup for a joke. its completely different to how every other prestige series is written
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indigi posted:the crazy thing about Simpsons still going is that it's not any cheaper to make, the main VAs are making beaucoup dollores per episode even if their animation costs plateaued after the shift to HD (and I’m sure they haven't). their viewership is less than 1/6 what it was 20 years ago so they can't be killing it in advertising americans are deeply afraid of change
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yeah replacing the simpsons would be just hard you'd have enough budget to make 20 cartoons, a ton of people suddenly able to do it, not many actually good ideas and vanishingly few people to watch it its lose lose
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Stop, already dead, etc Why do you want the best metaphor there is for American stagnation to go away?
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new Simpsons episodes don't get as many viewers as the msnbc morning show it can't be that difficult to replace
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indigi posted:new Simpsons episodes don't get as many viewers as the msnbc morning show it can't be that difficult to replace they could replace it with simpsons reruns and they'd probably get more viewers. the problem is they'd be cancelling "the simpsons", not "the current iteration of the simpsons" like i don't think someone would go apeshit over them canceling the today show or whatever, even if it's been around as long (or longer idk). people are insanely passionate about cartoons they don't watch 
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